Ganga’s role is currently focused on product strategy and development for dentsu APAC. He is a product and technology leader with a deep interest in building usable products, having worked across adtech, martech, edtech, telecom and eCommerce. His career spans over a decade as a software engineer and CTO/CPO, and he has built and mentored product, engineering, data science and media trading teams to operate with high performance, across a wide range of industries, for global, regional and local clients. As a speaker and trainer, he presents real scenarios as a means to learn while keeping a strong focus on innovation.

Laura is Head of Marketing for Southeast Asia at Canva, leading growth across one of the company’s most dynamic regions. An award-winning marketing leader with 15+ years’ experience across tech, e-commerce, and sustainability, she was an early hire at foodpanda, helping scale the business more than 100× in Singapore and shaping its sustainability roadmap. She’s known for turning chaos into clarity and building teams who actually enjoy Monday mornings, creating environments where people feel supported and excited to do their best work.

Helen Hidvegi is Vice President, Marketing & Public Relations at Doctor Anywhere, leading brand, growth, and communications to build one of Southeast Asia’s most trusted digital healthcare ecosystems. With 25+ years across APAC and Europe, she has delivered $100M+ incremental revenue and $2B+ earned media, scaling category-defining brands at Warner Bros. Discovery (HBO Max), Netflix, Mars, L’Oreal and Nestle. She is known for turning culture-led storytelling into sustained commercial growth.

Jiacheng Ma (JC) is Head of eCommerce, GrabExpress, and Merchant Acquisition at Grab Singapore, leading three portfolios: eCommerce (P&L, strategy, GTM), Ads, and Merchant Acquisition (across Food, eCommerce, Payments, and Omni- Commerce). With a background in engineering, finance, and strategy, JC brings a first-principles approach to managing the complexities of a three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and delivery partners. At Grab, he has led multiple businesses—scaling GrabFood into maturity, expanding into GrabMart, and now eCommerce. Most recently, his portfolio has grown to include Ads and merchant acquisition, giving him a holistic perspective across strategy, operations, commercial, and sales.

Shweta Jhamb is Head of E-commerce & Media at Haleon South East Asia and Taiwan, with over 15 years of experience in brand marketing, media, and e-commerce. A seasoned CPG leader, she has built and scaled direct-to-consumer and e-commerce businesses across Asia-Pacific markets. She leads Haleon’s digital marketing and e-commerce strategy, driving growth, innovation, and customer engagement. Passionate about digital transformation, she champions new-age marketing capabilities and empowers teams to deliver measurable business with a strong impact.

As the General Manager of Digital for Southeast Asia at Havas, Zoheb is a seasoned strategist excelling at the intersection of complex regional operations and high-performance media execution. He leads the region’s performance offering, seamlessly blending media innovation with operational excellence to drive borderless growth. In his previous role as Head of APAC Digital Operations, he managed extensive multi-market portfolios across the aviation, luxury hospitality, and automotive industries. A proven transformation specialist, Zoheb is recognized for his ability to build elite specialist capabilities from the ground up. During his previous tenure, he successfully scaled a core digital division by over 6x, an expansion in expertise that was instrumental in securing Campaign Asia’s 2023 Digital Agency of the Year Gold.

Brenda provides strategic leadership in the development of integrated marketing communication campaigns to advance Singapore’s national health agenda through the Health Promotion Board’s consumer engagement efforts. Occasionally, she also guest lectures in the National University of Singapore’s Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. Over the years, she has led numerous award-winning marketing campaigns and million-dollar fundraising projects in her professional career spanning health, government, not-for-profit, education and media organisations in Singapore and the Philippines.

Melina Chan is a two-time Adobe Marketo Champion and Leader of the Singapore Marketo User Group, recognised for driving enterprise marketing transformation across Southeast Asia. As Head of Marketing Automation, she partners with global, regional, and country stakeholders to deliver data-led customer experiences through marketing automation. Melina brings a strategic practitioner’s perspective on predictive CX, intelligent orchestration, and personalisation at scale—grounded in real-world execution and measurable impact.

Currently heading Customer Experience and Digital marketing at Income Insurance, Saurabh is a leader bringing together best technologies, thinking minds, methodologies & brand understanding to solve for a problem or build for an opportunity. His definition of creativity and innovation is attempting to solve big, hairy problems with a mixture of process, human centred design, a diverse team and unconventional thinking

Mark Opao is a seasoned digital marketer with over 16 years of experience in digital media strategy, communications planning and acquisition growth across China, Singapore (local and regional scope) and the Philippines. From successful years spent on global media agencies and working with some of the world’s best-in-class client marketers (Procter and Gamble, Unilever, SC Johnson and Reckitt among others), he joined global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky to drive digital consumer acquisition across Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Turkey and Africa regions. In 2024, he was promoted as eCommerce Lead for Southeast Asia to drive its needed expansion and profitability by orchestrating key growth levers – pricing and promotion strategy, digital media planning, site design and conversion rate optimization, user experience and retention.

A business and brand leader with deep experience leading multi billion dollar global categories and brands. Shalini has worked across multiple Personal Care, Beauty and Home Care brands and with consumers and customers in the South East Asia, South Asia, US and Africa. She has a successful track record in leading innovation, turning around businesses, managing P&Ls, leading through transformation and crafting award winning communication. She started her career in Sri Lanka, and over the last 18 years she has worked and lived in Singapore, Vietnam, USA and Ethiopia. After 18 years at Unilever, Shalini now leads the Baby and Child Care segment for Kimberly Clark.

Sharona Nicole P. Semilla is a Regional Journalist at MARKETECH APAC, covering marketing, advertising, and business developments with a strong focus on Singapore and the wider Asia-Pacific region. With a background in journalism and corporate communications, she specialises in shaping clear, balanced editorial narratives from complex brand and stakeholder stories, guided by newsroom rigour and regional insight.

Terrence is the General Manager for Merkle and dentsu X, bringing over a decade of experience across both client and agency roles. He is a firm believer that technology only creates value when applied to solve real business problems. Terrence has built trusted partnerships across financial services, education, and hospitality, and is widely recognised for his calm, collaborative leadership style. He is also a strong advocate for digital literacy as a critical driver of sustainable, long-term commercial performance.

With over a decade of experience in the FMCG and luxury beauty sectors, Kai Li is a seasoned professional skilled in product management, media, PR communications, CRM and e-commerce strategies. Kai Li now leads marketing efforts for Parfums Christian Dior across Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, driving brand growth and market penetration in these regions. Kai Li’s expertise lies in crafting comprehensive marketing strategies that resonate with diverse audiences and deliver measurable results.

Julian is a marketing and communications leader with over 16 years of diverse experience spanning eCommerce, technology, hospitality, aviation, manufacturing, advertising, and non-profits. Currently serving as the Chief Marketing Officer at Alola, Julian is at the forefront of revolutionizing the travel industry through the use of AI technology to streamline and personalize travel, empowering travelers to create beautiful memories.

Alex de Leon is Group Vice President of Marketing & Growth at PropertyGuru, where he leads both consumer and B2B marketing across Southeast Asia. He previously held leadership roles at Google, Meta, and HBO, scaling products and businesses across the region. As a founding member of Google Philippines and former Head of Product Marketing for Instagram APAC, he helped launch Stories and Reels to over 500 million users. Alex holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA from Boston College.

A seasoned executive with over 20 years of global experience, this leader has held senior management and sales roles across Europe and Southeast Asia. With a proven track record in multi-channel development and P&L ownership, they have driven growth for multinationals in banking, telecommunications, and e-commerce. Deeply versed in APAC business practices, they prioritize team-oriented cultures and diverse perspectives, combining data-driven operational planning with a passion for relationship management to deliver measurable business impact.

Joanne Wang is Group Head of Marketing for Timezone, leading brand, creative, and PR strategies. With close to 20 years of consumer marketing experience, she specialises in crafting brand narratives, driving customer engagement, and translating insights into growth. As a certified coach, she brings a people-centric leadership style focused on building brands and teams ready for the evolving marketing landscape.

Dennis Perez is a leading voice in the shift toward Social-First Marketing. As the Head of Marketing for Beauty & Wellbeing Philippines, he is re-engineering the traditional marketing playbook into a model where culture, technology, and commerce converge. His perspective shapes the Marketing Transformation agenda across Greater Asia, covering Southeast Asia, Japan, and Korea. In this regional capacity, Dennis is an advocate for the strategic integration of AI and community-led world building—not just as tools, but as a means to ensure brands contribute to the culture they live in. What makes Dennis’s approach a bit different is his background. He’s a licensed Chemical Engineer with the soul of a film critic, so he tends to look at creativity through a lens of systems and logic. This duality allows him to apply analytical rigor to the creative process, treating data as the framework and narrative as the final, essential craft. For Dennis, the goal isn’t just to build brands that are seen; it’s to build brands that possess the substance to truly matter.

Aseem Puri is the CEO at Unilever International, Unilever’s global business unit and white space partner. He comes with 12 years of rich brand leadership experience across India, China and South East Asia with a track record of doubling / tripling brands, high success rate in landing new brand innovations and delivering the top 2 category innovations in the last decade on sales and profitability.

He has been with Unilever since 2003, starting off as an area sales and customer manager. In his time with the FMCG company, Aseem has held several senior roles such as regional brand manager, marketing director, and VP of global marketing and business development. He has previously worked on eCommerce launches, global CRM platform building and white space mapping, among others.